The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 70
At this they were angry and declared that he had made sport of them and unless he produced the statue at once they would kill him.
Who acts: this, father, uncles · What happens: be, declare, make, produce, kill, sport · To what, where: sport, statue, father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, father, uncles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 angry | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | cop |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 declared | cc |
| 7 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 angry | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 declared | ccomp |
| 12 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sport | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kill | cc |
| 16 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 18 produced | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 produced | nsubj |
| 18 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 statue | det |
| 20 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 produced | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 produced | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 made | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 kill | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this | uncles = uncle nsubj; angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | this not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | father | sport of uncles | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | produce a condition, not said to happen | past | father | the statue | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Result | ||||
| 5 | kill | would | uncles = uncle | father | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | sport | uncles = uncle | nom sport «act intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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